Business, international

Updating giants of the past

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British architects John McAslan & Partners and Ove Arup & Partners are redesigning parts of two US buildings from the 1950s to make overall improvements in functionality. The Polk County Science Building in Florida is being modified to enhance and improve teaching, administration and laboratory space. Various floor designs and elevations are shown. Trenton Bath House, New Jersey, is a listed historic building on the National Register of Historic Places. A description of renovation work is given.

Cross-section of a century

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A new show at the Bristol Architecture Centre takes the city's twentieth-century buildings as its theme. The curators of the new show are writer Tony Aldous and photographer John Trelawny-Ross. Aldous is critical of the post war years, but finds merit in buildings such as DRG Architects' Miesian tower and Percy Thomas Partnership's complex for the MoD. The photographs do not show the interior of the buildings and there is no sense of the context of the buildings.

Venice vows to build for the 21st century

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The city of Venice is focusing on new construction as a key to its economic future, as the city becomes more dependent on tourism. The city was opposed to modern architecture for a long time, but has agreed to 30 construction projects, most of which include the reuse of historing buildings.